Saturday, May 07, 2011

You might have noticed that there's been quite a lack of Super Rugby tries on here in the past week or two. There's a few reasons for that, but most importantly, it changes today as we've got all the recaps, with RD's Pick of the Week videos.

While we're now into week 12 of the tournament, below are three great video compilations of our pick of the best tries scored in the last three rounds of play.

They're all great, so kick back and watch all three if possible, but it must be said that some of the tries scored in the last two rounds in particular are absolutely outstanding. The open running, offloading, and running angles on show are fantastic to watch.

The challenge for you now, if you're up for it, would be to pick a top 5 from all of them. There's definitely a few that stand out, and even some tries that weren't able to be included, but I'm sure you'll have your favourites.

When more than one video is posted at once, they're presented as a playlist, so you can hit play once then it will automatically skip to the next video when the first is finished. So on and so forth. If you only want to see the latest round (11), then you can navigate to it easily. Enjoy.

Songs:Round 9 Bayside - Blame It On Bad LuckRound 10 A Day To Remember - The Downfall of Us AllRound 11 Mystery Jets - Alice Springs

I think Cipriani's defensive abilities (or lack of) have been found out. Rugby is a physical game, no matter how good the other parts of your game are an inability to tackle and hold on to the ball are pretty hard to overlook...

To be fair to Cipriani (I am no fan let me tell you), his teammates did little to help him out on either try. He was not the only one who missed the tackle against Ranger and then after the ball was stolen from him, his teammates made piss poor efforts to make a tackle.

Pretorius may be the most exciting 9 in the competition, PDV would be smart to blood him in the trinations.

Dagg always looks good.

Ranger is a monster.

What I like about SH rugby is the risk taking that seems to be encouraged. I think that's the main difference. The defense is not any worse and the skills no better, but the attitude seems to be "have a go, if it doesn't work out we'll live with it". It's sad to see even great French teams like Toulouse play so conservatively.

I'm loving the new Super Rugby format. It seems to have breathed new life into the competition. Also the fact that teams previously off the radar like the Highlanders, Reds and Cheetahs are pulling off big wins adds some spice to every game.

In fairness, the weapons in the All Black's arsenal are unbelieveable. Toeva would walk into any team in the world, Dagg & Jane keeping him out. Freuen, Ranger, Stanley, Nonu, Smith, SBW. Crazy talent. New Zealands new greatest export! Their rugby players.

Is John Afoa considered a fringe player for NZ or a core starter? He just seems to have a little sprinkle of class in the loose you don't see in front rows often. Is he considered to be a bit of a lightweight in the tight?

René Ranger is such a good player with pace , strenght and agility ! Sarel Pretorius is a real try hunter he makes me think to Joost van der Westhuizen ! He may be a the SA surprise for the RWC. I really think that there's a big difference with the north hemisphere in terms of game's vision. I'm french and even a lot of people is according to say that Top 14 is the best competition, i think that Super XV is the most amazing rugby that you can see in the world...

I heard something about Nonu today. It's a Boudjellal quote during a french tv show responding to Fabien Galthié. He just gives the information that Nonu will come in Montpellier after the RWC. Some french newspapers talks about that but nothing official. It would be huge for Montpellier, i'll go to the stadium every week end if it's confirmed !

Dear Mr Dump,I've been a bit slow getting to these - I get this message when I try to watch Round 11:This video contains content from Premier Media Group, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds. Sorry about that.Any way round that? Would be keen to have a gander.Cheers!